I've been chasing the perfect PC laptop for over a decade now. Though I've tolerated lugging around five to seven pound machines because I had to, laptops were always about portability first and most of all to me. I quickly gravitated to so-called ultraportable laptops as soon as they became ...

I have the buffalo with dd-wrt mega flashed on it. It hosts my home voip and vpn. It's great! My cat did knock it down and the antennae ripped off, but I soldered them back on. Just be warned they are a little flimsy and difficult to repair. It is otherwise a fantastic router. You get so much bang for your buck.

Do you remember when a router used to be an exotic bit of network kit? Those days are long gone. A router is one of those salt-of-the-earth items now; anyone who pays for an internet connection needs a router, for: NAT and basic hardware firewall protection from internet evildoers A wired net...